Night
By Etel Adnan
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Night - Etel Adnan
Standing trees sleep in this forest that created the night when the moon was looking elsewhere. Gone the sailboats, the sea, in this obscurity that’s keeping no promise
A field of rosebushes has been flattened by the wind.
Shadows strangely resemble yesterday’s trees, yesterdays and tomorrows being the walls of our prisons.
Those shadows have landed us into taxis and houses, telling the light to stay outside
but the moon was right not to bother.
The wedding of history with the coffee we drink in our ever shrinking days awakes our need to reinvent love.
Empty shells lie on the beach in hours always uncertain.
The Indian will not cut the grass because, he says, that’s his mother’s hair, and I assured him that I will not break a stone because that might well be his spirit’s house.
Philosophy brings us back to simplicity.
Now waves of roses are blanketing memory, but childhood’s desire to enter time’s core remains. Nothing is stirring. Grass grows differently than words. In those roses, infinity’s infinity
The wish to inhabit storms leads to cities in flames. Traces turn into signs and thinking precedes itself in the deep recesses of the brain. Bodies are always naked under their clothes.
Words melt in reflections; that’s why there’s a uselessness to this night, to my missing the river, to the delaying of love… light is picking up momentum in the vicinity of the oaks that cover this property, this